Pastry-cooking machine.



P. PIERCE. PASTRY COOKING MACHINE.

APPLICATION TILED $31 129, 1910,

Patented Feb. 28, 1911.

, s. nrnm'ct. PASTRY COOKING MACHINE.

, APPLIOATION FILED SEPT. 29,;1910.

PatentedFeb. 28, 1911.

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SIMEON F. PIERCE, OF ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA, ASSIGNOR TO CREAM coNE MAcHI Ef- COMPANY, or sit. PAUL, MINNESOTA,

A CORPORATION OF MINNESOTA.

PASTRY-COOKING MACHINE.

'To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, SiMEoN .F. PIERCE, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Paul, in the county of Ramsey and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in- Pastry Cooking 'Machmes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in" and claimed;

In the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification, Figure l is .aperspective View of a plurality of mold members including my improved actuating means for the inner mold members; Figs. 2 and 3 are central vertical sections through cooperating mold members showing the in ner mold member in varying positions; Fig. 4 is a similar section through the inner mold member and surrounding framework illustrating one step in the operation of loosening the cooked pastr and Fig. 5 is a perspective view broken away of an actuating cam for the inner mold members.

i In the drawings A represents outer mold members carried by the wall 2 of an oven not shown.

B represents inner mold members slidably supported in openings 3 in a plate 4, which plate may be" supported in any suitable manner, not shown, to carry the inner mold members B into and out of the outer mold members.

For the purpose of loosening the cooked pastry from the inner mold members", I provide the following described features of invention: Arranged longitudinally of the plate 4 above each row of inner mold members is a shaft 5 having journal support in flanges 6 surrounding the openings 3. Thev shaft 5 above each inner mold member is cut away to form an-eccentrlc 7. Each eccentric 7 is connected with the interior of the corresponding inner mold'member by links Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed. September29, 19-10.

bars 13, said cross bars tamed, as

17 tothe underside of Patented Feb. 28, Serial. No. 584,481.

8 and 9 having screw threaded adjustable connection controlled by a nut 1-0. The link 8 has pivotal connection 11 with the interior of the inner supported at its upper end'upon the corre sponding eccentric 7 through themedium of a yoke 12. The shafts 5 are anchored and braced upon the plate 4 being centrally secured as by bolts 14 to the plate and form'- ing journal supports at their free ends for the shafts. For the purpose of rotating the shafts to actuate the inner mold members I provide a suitable handle 15. The handle 15- pivotally supports a pair of crossarins 18 which in turn pivotally support bars 19 which arenarrowed at their ends to fit into openings 20 in handle 15 may thus be removed when not in use. By varying the number of bars 18 and 19 the handle may be adapted to any number of shafts 5.

In operation the pastry article 16 is obin the general'class of machinery of this type, by dough being poured into the out-ermold members, the inner mold members then being carried into the outer mold astry and the whole members to shape the then subjected to suita le heat. The baked article as obtained by machines of this type comprises the pastry cones 16 connected pastry 17. In actual operation itis found that when the inner mold members are removed from the outer mold members the pastry cones 16 are apt to adhere to the inner mold members and the sheet of pastry the plate 4. The ar-v ticles being of thin pastry are easily broken unless great care is used in their removal. and to accomplish the removal of the cones and connecting sheet of pastry without injury my improved features are employed. In removing the cooked article I first rotate the shafts 5 by the handle 15 to slightly lower the inner mold members and loosen the sheet of pastry 17 .from the underside of the plate 4. I then oppositely rotate the shafts 5 to raise the inner mold members in. the openings 3 as illustrated in Fig. 2 to bring the large ends of the pastry cones against the underside of the plate and force said cones from the inner mold members.

mold member and the link ,Q is

by means of cross at their larger ends by a sheet of.

the ends of the bars 5. The

This efi'ectively and without injury loosens the pastry artlcles from the inner cone members. v

' I claim as my invention:

'1. In a pastry cooking machine of the class described, a plurality of' fixed outer mold members, a plurality of cooperating inner mold members slidably supported in connection with an adjacent support, and eccentric means for reciprocating said mner mold members to bring a predetermined portlon of'thesame respectively below and above the underside of said support.

2. In-a pastry cooking machine of the class described, a" plurality of outermold members, a superimposed plate,.a plurality of inner mold members extending through.

said plate in positionto enter said outer mold members and eccentric means supported by said plate for raisingand lowering said moldmemberswith relation to' said plate-u In a pastry cooking machine of the class described, a plurality of outer mold members, a superimposed plate, a plurality of inner mold members slid'ably extending through said plate, means supported by said plate 'for sliding said inner moldwmembers with relation to said plate, and means for adjusting the position of said inner 'mold members with reference'fto said actuating means. i

4.1m a-=pastry oookin machine of the class described, a plurality of fixed outer mold members, a superimposed ,plate, shafts having journal support upon said (plate, eecentrics carried by said shafts, an slidable. inner mold members extending through said plate and supported from said eccentrics.

5. In a pastry cooking machine of the class described, a plurality of fixed outer snunoN r. PIERCE. Witnesses H. S. JOHNSON, E. SMITH. 

